The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook: Hundreds of Favorite Recipes Created to Combat Congestive Heart Failure and Dangerous Hypertension - Hardcover

Gazzaniga, Donald A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312252528 ISBN 13: 9780312252526

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001

Synopsis

Donald Gazzaniga, diagnosed with congestive heart failure, was headed for a heart transplant - the only effective medical treatment. Urged by his doctor to keep his sodium intake "under 1,500-2000 mg. a day," Don headed for the kitchen and went to work. Aware that cutting out table salt is the barest beginning of a true low-sodium diet, Don devised recipes for delicious low-sodium dishes that added up to less than 500 mg. daily, 70% lower than those in other low-sodium cookbooks. The result? Don's name has been removed from the transplant list and his doctors believe that his diet played a significant role.

The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook contains:

* Hundreds of good tasting, easy-to-make recipes
* An introduction by Dr. Sandra Barbour of the Kaiser Permanente Foundation
* Advice on finding low-sodium prepared foods, eating in restaurants, etc.
* Accurate sodium content of every ingredient and of the total servings
* A twenty-eight-day low-sodium menu planner by Dr. Jeannie Gazzaniga, Ph.D., R.D.

This book is for informational purposes only. Readers are advised to consult a physician before making any major change in diet.

About this title

From the Author:

It is Thanksgiving week, 2011. I have lived fifteen years longer than I was first diagnosed to live in January of 1997. In that time I have met thirteen new grandchildren and learned to do things I always wanted to do, like oil painting, playing a saxophone, cruising around in my own bass boat and generally enjoying life. I have reversed my heart disease. From a close-encounter with a transplant to my activities today is rather amazing.  I credit four things for this.
1. Consuming no salt. Absolutely no salt. Sodium levels at or below 500 mg per day. 2. Heart medications including Carvidilol, Cozaar and digitalis. 3. Exercise daily.4. Do something new every day or at least try to learn something new. In other words, keep the brain active as well as the body.

The recipes I have created over the past fifteen years have helped others as well. Please read the testimonials at megaheart.com for confirmation. They are each unsolicited and each is there with the permission of those who sent them to me at their own volition.

This cookbook and the other books in this series will help you recover. And you will note many testimonials come from those with Meniere's Syndrome, hypertension, diabetes and other maladies. When I first wrote this book I thought only of heart disease. I have learned since that a multitude of diseases are helped with a no-salt, low-sodium lifestyle. 

I encourage you to at least give it a try. Check this or one of the other books out of your library or download an E-book version of Living Well Without Salt or go ahead and order a copy from your favorite online book dealer or a bookstore. The Living Well book offers many pointers on how to reverse your heart disease or stop the dizziness created by Meniere's. Each of the books in this series is chock full of great information as well as superb no-salt recipes. And by the way, we don't use any ingredients with salt in them, either.

I am always available to help you get started via E-mail. Just write from the Web site and I'll get back to you ASAP.

From the Inside Flap:

In 1997, after suffering a collapse while rowing, sixty-three-year-old Donald Gaz- zaniga was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Unlike with other heart ailments, bypass surgery is not a treatment for this; and although there are medications, congestive heart failure patients must look to a heart trans- plant for relief, assuming they survive until their name reaches the top of the transplant waiting list.

Gazzaniga was placed on the list at Stan- ford University Hospital Medical Center. He was told to watch his diet, which he had always tried to do, and especially to consistently eat foods that are as low as possible in sodium con- tent. It is surprising how many people do believe that a low-sodium diet means that you simply ban the saltshaker from your kitchen and table. Actually, a very large percentage of all the foods we eat contain varying amounts of sodium-and many contain a lot. Not only is it naturally present in many foods, but more is often added during the preparation of commercially packaged foods as well.

Gazzaniga, who had always been interest- ed in food and cooking, now had an incentive to develop special recipes. The immediate result is the recipes in this book. They are as much as 70 percent lower in sodium than those of other low-sodium cookbooks. Doctors use the figures 2,000 mg. or 2,500 mg. of sodium per day as a goal for their heart disease and hypertensive patients because they don't believe it's possible to concoct a diet lower in sodium than that. But these recipes provide delicious, easy-to-make dishes and menus with as little as 500 mg. of sodium per day. What will delight those-and their families-whogo to them for health is that by some mag-ic Gazzaniga has been able to present the cook with finished dishes that are varied, easy to make, and as delicious as any "regular" dishes.

The second result is even more impressive: After following the recipes in this book, Gaz- zaniga discovered his medical tests showed an improvement that his doctor calls "amazing"- and he has been taken off the transplant list! His doctor credits his daily walks, his medica- tion, and above all the diet he has created, and is enthusiastically telling all his patients to get this book and follow it faithfully.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, New York
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312252528
• ISBN 13: 9780312252526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422